Our magic bus arrived on time and we were on our way to Taupo or at least we thought we were.  It now transpires that we may have benifitted from actually reading about our bus ticket that we booked so many months ago. The magic bus is less like a Greyhound bus and more like an old persons day out to Bogna Regis bus. Instead of taking the 1 hour drive to Taupo, we took a 10 hour diversion over to Waitomo. In the afternoon I decided that this really wasn't such a bad thing because we get to see stuff [View Full Entry]

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After my last blog we stumbled into a puzzle shop and spent three hours talking to a man named Steve who may now be one of my favourite people in the world. The casino was not as successful as I had anticipated. The first poker table we came across held a big blind of $8000 and I decided that it was not an ideal night for poker. Instead we spent 10 fun filled minutes losing $40 on roulette and blackjack.  Before that we'd been to the top of the skytower for some steak and cocktails which I would recommend. If anyone [View Full Entry]

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Our day at Mossman Gorge was not as fantastic as planned.  The main attraction for us was a 2k rainforest walk which was entirely unaccessable due to the fact that 'Rex Creek' bridge was closed for maintenance. Nice one dad! On our way back we stopped at palm cove and Rachel was thrilled to gave returned to the restaurant she first visited in Australia over three and a half years ago. It was only when we settled the bill and left that she admitted it was most likely a completely different restaurant. When we were almost back at the campground we [View Full Entry]

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Once again, everything seems a very long time ago now but I shall attempt to recap. We went went straight through Bundaberg town centre, past the rum distilery and onto Bargara beach.  The place wasn't that great and made slightly worse by the fact that some backpacker was murdered there a few years ago.  We attempted to rent either bikes or surfboards but no one wanted to help us so we settled for a walk where we saw some squashed cane toads, some spiders so big that I wanted to cry and a turtle exhibit with no turtles. The following day [View Full Entry]

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After leaving prawn king city we set sail for Brisbane. We got there prettly early and had to fill the time in with some free McDonalds Wi fi (this is somewhat of a regular occurence which needs to stop) and a walk to the river. On returning from our walk we found a friendly Barton there to greet us and before long Juliette was also home. Three of us had some slow afternoon beers and a catch up whilst Bart went to see a friend then we hit Brisbane for some jäger bombs and air guitar. I'm not sure if it's [View Full Entry]

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Byron bay was a cool place and is much as I didn't want to admit it I can quite clearly see how people with time on their hands could get caught up there.  At first it looked like a bit of an under eighteens fashion show but after just a few hours we could see that that was not the case. The atmosphere was really chilled and the beach was amazing. To get to know the place we had a few glasses of perspective then way too much food. I quite literally had to poo and sleep. The next day consisted [View Full Entry]

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Just making use of some free wifi on Coffs Harbour. We returned to the Blue Montains in the morning and after a short walk to see the Katoomba Falls we were still hungry for more and ended up at Scenic World. For the bargain price of $19 each we took a ride on the worlds steepest railway had a walk around the old coal mining district in the mountain via the boardwalk then headed back to the top in a cable car. Rachel had in fact done all of these things when she was last in Australia but when she reminded [View Full Entry]

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Its been a while since Ive done this so no doubt Im going to miss a whole load of information bit here goes. We had gotten into a bit of a routine of driving to our next destination then finding a place to stay when we got there. Somewhat naively we did not attempt to introduce a different routine when entering Melbourne. Therefore what we effectively did was drove into the centre of London in rush hour. However thanks to my co drivers navigational skills we were soon out of the city and at our camp site. this is where we [View Full Entry]

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We got the whales! After breakfast we headed straight back to Logans Beach. We saw some people walking in the opposite direction whose faces looked like they had not recieved whale satisfaction but it turns out they just didn't appreciate them. They were pretty far away but still a fascinating sight. We realised that the camera needed charging so decided that another night in a powered camp site was in order and we'd hit the Great Ocean Road in the morning. With that in mind we took a walk along the promenade then headed into town. My selected shoes for our [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday was a good day! The sinkholes, mountains and volcanoes did not disappoint. The cool thing about Australia (or at least South Australia) is that no one has ruined it. This is particularly noticable having just left Asia. We took a walk around Blue lake in the morning and there was definitely no false advertising there, it was a blue lake. It was also quite big and very free.  After that we took a drive out to Mount Schank, parked up for some beans on toast and took a trek up the hill. This was also free and we were the [View Full Entry]

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